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| MegFL |
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Variety reports that Jennifer spoke at the memorial for Bernie Brillstein tonight in LA.
Hollywood remembers Bernie Brillstein
Belushi, Aykroyd perform tribute as Blues Bros.
By CYNTHIA LITTLETON
A high-wattage mix of showbiz talent, execs, agents and managers packed UCLA's Royce Hall on Monday evening to remember Bernie Brillstein as a friend, mentor and industry icon.
Emcee Martin Short set a light but loving tone at the outset of the tribute to the pioneering manager and producer, who died Thursday at age 77.
"He used to say to me, 'Kid, I'm going to get you a gig at Royce Hall if it kills me,' " Short quipped, to hearty applause.
Brillstein's longtime business partner, Brad Grey, choked up as he recalled their "25-year love affair."
Brillstein's loyalty and respect for clients was highlighted by comic Jack Burns, who told the story of how Brillstein arranged an intervention when Burns was at the depths of his alcoholism.
"He told me, "I will stick by you, jobs or no jobs, as long as you try your very best (in rehab),' " Burns recalled. "It's been 6,982 days since that meeting.
"I can literally say, I owe my life to Bernie. Not a career -- my life."
Jim Belushi and Dan Aykroyd gave a surprise perf as the Blues Brothers. (Brillstein exec produced the 1980 pic featuring his clients, John Belushi and Aykroyd.)
Other speakers included Bill Maher, Jennifer Aniston, Norm Crosby, Jon Lovitz, Lorne Michaels, Sandy Wernick, Abe Hoch, Jerry Weintraub, John Larroquette, Rob Lowe, Alan Zweibel and Brillstein Entertainment Partners' CEO Jon Liebman.
"The two-hour memorial closed on an emotional note with a nod to Brillstein's legacy as a prime force in the career of the late Muppet master Jim Henson. Kermit the Frog, accompanied by a solo banjo, gave a heartfelt rendition of the signature "Muppet Movie" ballad, "Rainbow Connection."
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| lithia fan |
| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:13 am |
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Hey! Where's my individual title?
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| Thanks, Meg. He sounds like he was a wonderful man. RIP. |
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| MegFL |
| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:26 am |
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Quote: Brillstein's eye for comedic talent was almost unmatched, but it was in the packaging of his clients in movies and TV shows that Brillstein's showbiz skills really stood out.He helped propel the careers of everyone from Brad Pitt to Adam Sandler, from Bill Maher to Dennis Miller, from Gwyneth Paltrow to Jennifer Aniston.
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| MegFL |
| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:51 pm |
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Lengthy article from Good HouseKeeping, so I will just link. It�s a good read.
Jennifer Aniston's Happiness Plan
She's cracked the code for putting joy in everyday life. Learn her secrets here.
Good HouseKeeping |
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| koukla |
| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:15 am |
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| i feel that jen is goin through this spiritual transition with herself..im really into philisofy so i feel that she took her time to figure out who she was coz she was lost and didnt quite understand how to live her life properly but u see her now glowing lookin healthy as if it comes form inside ...its beautiful and its really nice to see...xox |
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| MegFL |
| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:23 am |
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Hollywood Honcho Bernie Brillstein Remembered
August 14, 2008
A who's who of Hollywood turned out last night to remember Bernie Brillstein.
A memorial service was held at UCLA's Royce Hall to pay tribute to the late manager and TV/movie producer, who died last week at 77 due to complications from heart disease.
Longtime client Jennifer Aniston read a passage from Brillstein's book Where Did I Go Right?, and Rob Lowe talked about their 20-plus year relationship, a source at the service reports.
The evening also included a video/photo montage featuring candid shots of Brillstein with such stars as Brad Pitt, Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Paramount studio boss Brad Grey, Muppets creator Jim Henson and Miss Piggy along with plenty of family pics.
Jim Belushi and Dan Aykroyd performed as the Blues Brothers for a standing-room-only crowd that included Martin Short, Bill Maher and Lorne Michaels, among many others.
Kermit the Frog closed the service by singing "Rainbow Connection."
If you're unfamiliar with Mr. Brillstein, click over to Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood to find out exactly what made this man so special and why he was so loved by Hollywood.
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| jenforever |
| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:47 am |
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koukla wrote: i feel that jen is goin through this spiritual transition with herself..im really into philisofy so i feel that she took her time to figure out who she was coz she was lost and didnt quite understand how to live her life properly but u see her now glowing lookin healthy as if it comes form inside ...its beautiful and its really nice to see...xox
I'm going to disagree with that a lil. Jen has always been spiritual. Anyone who has read her interviews or quotes by people who are close to her would know that she is a very deep person and people have often commented that she spiritual too. Of course as indiviuals you are always evolving. Whenever you go through rough times and if you are someone who has a positive outlook on life you will come out of it with a certain new perspective. Those are times that make you stronger as a person. She has always looked healthy. I mean I will admit there were times where I have been worried about the fact that she was losing a lot of weight but you go through those phases in life. There is nothing unusual about it and she has been looking healthy for awhile now. |
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| Nicole-Jen4ever |
| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:31 am |
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jenforever wrote: koukla wrote: i feel that jen is goin through this spiritual transition with herself..im really into philisofy so i feel that she took her time to figure out who she was coz she was lost and didnt quite understand how to live her life properly but u see her now glowing lookin healthy as if it comes form inside ...its beautiful and its really nice to see...xox
I'm going to disagree with that a lil. Jen has always been spiritual. Anyone who has read her interviews or quotes by people who are close to her would know that she is a very deep person and people have often commented that she spiritual too. Of course as indiviuals you are always evolving. Whenever you go through rough times and if you are someone who has a positive outlook on life you will come out of it with a certain new perspective. Those are times that make you stronger as a person. She has always looked healthy. I mean I will admit there were times where I have been worried about the fact that she was losing a lot of weight but you go through those phases in life. There is nothing unusual about it and she has been looking healthy for awhile now.
I'm with you 100% lol she always has postitive outlook on life |
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| Aqua2 |
| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:41 pm |
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MegFL wrote: Lengthy article from Good HouseKeeping, so I will just link. It�s a good read.
Jennifer Aniston's Happiness Plan
She's cracked the code for putting joy in everyday life. Learn her secrets here.
Good HouseKeeping
Thanks for posting, MegFL 
It is a very nice article.  |
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| ukca |
| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:08 pm |
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Hey! Where's my individual title?
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| MegFL |
| Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:15 pm |
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Jen�s behind is in People with a poll. I think it�s been up a while, but is shown on their front page today. Jen is winning by a landslide.
Style Watch Poll Our Ultimate Denim Poll
We want to hear your jean-ius opinions on the latest trends, celeb favorites � and styles you'd like to ban forever!
REAR VIEW
Who hasn't swiveled around in a dressing room to check out exactly how flattering their jeans are from the back? Maybe if you look as good in denim as Aniston, Diaz and Beyonc�, you're actually exempt from worry!
Whose jeans butt do you covet?
65% Jennifer Aniston
8% Cameron Diaz
7% Beyonce Knowles
14% Jessica Biel
4% Kim Kardashian
2% Kate Hudson
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| sweetheartM |
| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:24 pm |
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Not sure if we have this yet!
From The Sunday TimesAugust 10, 2008
Chick lit: the reality
Jane Fallon's tales of dysfunctional relationships tell it like it is - and we're loving them. She explains why life with Ricky Gervais, sans marriage and babies, suits her just fineGemma Soames
Sitting in the attic office of Jane Fallon's enormous Hampstead home, sun streaming through the window, cat padding by, it's hard not to feel envious. Fresh from a successful career as a television producer, Fallon wrote a first novel that was a bestseller last year (she is just back from meetings with Jennifer Aniston, who has picked up the film rights and bagged the lead), and today we're here to discuss her next, Got You Back, tipped to be another bestseller. On top of all that, she seems relaxed, content and incredibly smart. Oh, yes, and she lives with Britain's funniest man, Ricky Gervais.
It would be easy to dismiss Fallon's novels as just more chick lit. Covers featuring stilettos and pencil-skirt-clad bottoms indicate your average �single girl meets man and lives happily ever after� stuff. Read them, though, and you will find something different. �I don't read traditional chick lit any more. That all started 12 years ago; we've grown up now,� says Fallon, 47. �The world's changed, and to still be reading books where the woman is about to turn 30 and is, like, �Oh, my God, I've got to find a man!' doesn't feel real.�
It is a sentiment echoed by her novels. The first, Getting Rid of Matthew, told the story of a mistress who spent the better part of the book trying to ditch the man she had lured away from his wife, and her second sees two women involved with the same man meet, join forces and plot his downfall, leaving them both alone, and much the better for it.
Fallon arrived at this new genre, dubbed chick noir, by trying to deliver something a little more true to life. �I have friends who are 40, single and don't have kids, and they aren't panicking. Everything's changed. Women are having children much later - it feels as if, suddenly, we've been given 10 more years. And I got really irritated with all those women in books who define themselves by whether they could get someone down the aisle.�
That woman is certainly a million miles from Fallon. Sitting barefoot in front of me today, she looks a lot younger than 47. She comes across as laid-back, but clearly does not suffer fools. In her books, the butt of all the jokes are the D-list wannabes for whom her heroine works, and she admits that when it came to the female lead for her film, she �really wanted to avoid anyone who was ditzy or kooky. I find that really annoying. You want someone you know has a brain�. It would be entirely wrong to assume she's not up for a laugh, though. �I can never resist going for the joke, ever,� she says, and confesses that the thing she misses most about office life is �those funny afternoons, where you just run round like a load of children�.
The youngest of a family of five, she was brought up above her father's shop in Harrow and ended up at University College London. In her third year, she came across Gervais in the Student Union bar, and the couple have been together ever since. Unlike the dysfunctional relationships in her novels, theirs is, she says, a very solid one: �It's about being friends and being able to talk to each other. Sharing a sense of humour is hugely important. Also, I'm more shy and quiet, a bit glass-half-empty, and Ricky is definitely glass-half-full, so we balance each other out.� She can't understand couples who spend a lot of time apart. Now she works for herself, she travels with Gervais if he is away for long periods, though he has an office up the road for when he's in London, because, otherwise, �we'd never get anything done�.
Yet for all the happy-ever-after, their relationship is no stereotypical sweetheart story. They have never married, nor had children. Both deliberately so. �It's funny: people look at you quite strangely when you say that. But I really feel that if you're going to have kids, you don't have them because you think 'I'm that age', or, 'It'll patch up my relationship', or, 'I can opt out of work'. And I've just never wanted them.�
Fallon is a living example of the kind of woman she's writing for. Doing things because it's �what you do� is no longer enough for her - or many of us. �If I'd really wanted children, I would have made it work. It's more that emotional thing. I saw it in one of my sisters. Suddenly, she got this broodiness, this real physical, emotional thing, and I remember thinking, �If that happens to me, then I'd definitely have one' - and it just hasn't. It would be a bit of a disaster if it happened now.�
Gervais and Fallon are clearly enjoying their success. The house is a bachelor pad for two - all huge sofas, state-of-the-art systems, bright pink kitchen and enormous indoor pool - and a lot of television sets. �We're both telly addicts; we really do stay in with a bottle of wine and watch TV,� she confesses. Sure enough, on the coffee table sits the latest season of Prison Break. When they're not snuggled up with a box set, they visit LA - �It's fascinating to waft around for a few days� - or stroll round the corner to Jonathan Ross's house. But for all the famous mates and Hollywood trips, she is keen to keep out of the public eye. She is dreading our photo shoot, adamant that we make sure she looks like herself. �We tend to be private. People now, they're renewing their marriage vows so they can get a second magazine spread. It's like, here's our child's second christening party.�
Fallon is the polar opposite of a fame-hungry Wag. I ask her how she feels when she is questioned about Gervais, and she tells me that initially she minded, that she used to want to say, �You know, I haven't written a joke book, or about what it's really like to work in The Office, or what it's like to be an Extra. This hasn't happened to me because of who I go out with.�
Got You Back should make this abundantly clear. Fallon has tapped into a moment - or an age - when women no longer feel the pressure to do what everyone around them is doing, but do what's right for them. And hurrah for that.
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| wwwed |
| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:08 am |
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Janice Min said something nice about Jen... At least I think it's nice.
Quote: "Jen is still that Rachel Green, the girl next door," Min says of Aniston's Friends character. "She has a level of authenticity about her. She is 39, had the highest-profile marriage in Hollywood fall apart, and people will forever root for her until she has her happily-ever-after." |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:25 am |
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wwwed wrote: Janice Min said something nice about Jen... At least I think it's nice.
Quote: "Jen is still that Rachel Green, the girl next door," Min says of Aniston's Friends character. "She has a level of authenticity about her. She is 39, had the highest-profile marriage in Hollywood fall apart, and people will forever root for her until she has her happily-ever-after."
I don't think it's nice. |
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| wwwed |
| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 5:17 am |
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| Well I think when it comes to tabloids this is as nice as they get:-) |
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